Chapter 522 Orbital Defense Platform

"Master is planning to focus on the Rubian system first?"

After watching Amber advance the preparation end date of the three unmanned fleets to now in the command interface, and assigning destinations to each, Lilith asked.

Amber nodded without hesitation: "Yes, we have laid a lot of foundations in the Lubion Galaxy, and the initial investment does not count. We haven't even started to pay back. I don't want to go to a critical node." Someone is here to step in."

Lilith: "What about the A. Bawa Ku Fortress and Pyra 4? According to Master, you only plan to keep an unmanned fleet on the Pyra 4 side, and the fortress will directly No more deploying fleets for defense?”

"The current situation in these two places is relatively stable, and there will be no threats in the short term." Amber opened a star map casually. This three-dimensional star map with the 'situation map' function has been relying on Lilith's information. Collection capabilities are being updated.

He pointed to the two areas Lilith mentioned, one in the Sangui zone and the other in the former empire, and then continued:

"The common feature of these two places is that they are temporarily away from the war. I think after showing off their muscles last time, no one will attack the Asteroid Fortress in a short period of time. Moreover, Saleh is following the dock. After being transferred here, I helped upgrade the Forerunner's 'mining equipment' so that it can now fire three times in a row.

At the same time, the 'satellite missile group' and new automatic defense equipment have also been deployed, and the marines inside the fortress have also been replenished. Even if someone really can't think of a siege, they can persist for a long time.

As for Para 4, the main project of 'fortification' of several key nodes on the planet's surface has been completed, and the fusion furnace group has also been put into use. Except for some heavy forts still waiting for the main guns, these places actually already have combat capability.

And the ‘Orbital Defense Platform’.”

While talking about his judgment, Amber clicked a few times on the star map, and finally zoomed in to the position of Pyla 4, and the outer layer of the three-dimensional model of the planet also had a dense layer of 'small dots'.

"The Outer Space Engineering Department reports that the completion progress of Para 4's 'orbital defense platform' has reached 72%, and the completed parts have been put online and entered the trial operation stage. In addition, an unmanned aerial vehicle has been dispatched. The human fleet is a mobile force, unless it is attacked by a massive fleet or directly attacked by a celestial fortress, I am not too worried about defense. "

"And the empire really doesn't have the time to deploy such a large force to attack this planet Master, which has little strategic value. I'll do the math again. Just wait a moment~"

Lilith continued what Amber said, and at the same time made a new calculation based on Amber's current deployment and the actual situation of these two key locations.

After a moment, Lilith looked at Amber again: "If the 'orbital defense platform' of Pyla 4 can be fully online within the next month and a half according to the schedule, then we can indeed reduce the threat of the empire in this direction and The odds that they might resort to military means.”

The 'orbital defense platform' Amber and Lilith refer to is a planetary terminal defense system consisting of 2,400 large-scale autonomous defense platforms planned to be deployed in the high orbit of Pyla 4.

Most of the defense platforms are equipped with firepower projection capabilities equivalent to heavy patrol levels, and a few defense platforms that serve as "regional cores" are equipped with battleship-level armaments.

Of course, as the current mainstream defense system of mankind, there are naturally no shortage of deflection force field generators.

Therefore, each defense platform has the ability to independently supply and store energy. At the same time, it can also supply energy to surrounding damaged defense platforms in an emergency through microwave transmission.

These defense platforms are normally supplied and maintained by the 'Hive Core-Orbital Type' that is also deployed on orbit. The 'Worker Bees' released by the Honeycomb Core during combat can also perform emergency repairs on damaged defense platforms.

Moreover, after abandoning the crew cabin, living area and other loads, the ammunition and energy reserves have been greatly improved compared to manned units of the same size.

In addition to the attitude control nozzles that usually need to change orbit or adjust their position, the remaining power units of these defense platforms are arrays of plasma thrusters arranged on the extension line behind the heavy particle cannon to offset the recoil.

When these components are integrated together, it is not difficult to see that the defense platform is a warship that has been greatly reduced in size.

It's just that the cost and technical requirements to build this thing are much lower than those of a battleship.

After all, the defense platform does not need to consider long-distance navigation, jumps, or some tactical maneuvers in space, nor does it need to consider crew comfort, nor does it need as much structural strength as a battleship.

Therefore, the manufacturing period and cost are not at the same level as those of battleships. Especially after Atlas Group previously acquired a large number of physical industries sold off by the military-industrial complex at "jumping prices" and relocated them, these The construction speed of the defense platform is almost as fast as dumplings.

Of course, low cost is only the most inconspicuous advantage of this system, and its technical level is not high. The Federation and the Empire can completely manufacture and equip it. In fact, in the core galaxy circles of both parties, the main colonial planets, There are similar defense systems in orbit around military planets or industrial planets.

Even the orbital defense systems deployed on the capital planets of both sides can be said to be completely spared no expense, with firepower and defense at super-standard levels, known as the "absolute defense circle".

But the biggest difference between the similar systems of the Federation and the Empire and the system deployed by Atlas on Pyra IV is that personnel need to stay behind.

Even if the defense platform as the smallest node does not require personnel to stay, the large defense platform as the "regional core" and the logistics platform responsible for daily maintenance and supply all require personnel to stay.

And the command platform for combat is the special decision-making body "Orbital Defense Command", which is definitely not comparable to the "Orbital Defense Platform" with "Lilith's clone" as the system control core in terms of decision-making speed and command issuance efficiency.

Amber asked Lilith to cooperate with Dr. Mephisto, who has joined the Atlas Group Technology Research and Development Center, and the team below to put together this defense system. In addition to using it as a "pilot" for unmanned combat units, the more important thing is to solve the current manpower problem of Atlas.

Unlike traditional countries such as the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire, the Atlas Group is obviously much more difficult to expand and has much higher human costs.

Especially in the absence of a military service system, the human cost of the combat troops formed by similar "labor contracts" and the additional expenses that the group needs to pay after the combat troops are injured or killed have always accounted for the majority of the group's "operating costs".

It may be said that it was not felt when the combat troops only had a few hundred or thousands of people in the past, but with the rapid expansion of ground combat troops and fleets during this period, this human cost has reached an astronomical figure.

And the problems of "slow expansion of combat troops" and "combat troops cannot afford to lose people" that Amber had been worried about before have also begun to surface recently.

Although it is said that under the current rapid expansion of the Atlas Group, Amber has begun to discuss with a large number of recruited sociologists about how the "Universal Giant Enterprise" can develop stably in the future, and intends to design a new system of "employee relations, levels, powers, and obligations".

The original intention of this new system is to scientifically "reduce costs and increase efficiency", but it is obviously not something that can be done in a short time.

This made Amber finally determined to agree to the construction of the Immortal Legion and the unmanned combat force. The "orbital defense platform" of Pyla IV is the second answer sheet given by Lilith in addition to the Immortal Legion.

And this system was put to use before it was fully completed.